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Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. This timeless classic of gossip and matchmaking is presented as exquisite drama that questions and analyses the values and beliefs of Austen's own times, to understand the "blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" world of the text.

These hilarious tales of urban terror reveal the dark truth hidden behind three seemingly innocent words - a phrase that you have seen a hundred times before but will never view in the same light again - WANTED TO SHARE. John Birmingham's rendering of a life in share houses will leave you laughing, cringing and reminiscing about your own brushes with the mad, bad residents of flat mate hell.

Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust - or murderous passions. Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happens...and Nell's life is shattered by a spray of bullets and the razor edge of a blade.Though badly hurt, Nell emerges from the nightmare a woman transformed. Delicate surgery gives her an exquisitely beautiful face, and rehabilitation gives her a strong, lithe body. Nicholas Tanek, a mysterious stranger who compels both fear and fascination, gives her a reason to go on living: revenge - at any price.With his shadowy past and more secrets than Nell could ever imagine, Tanek knows far more about the attack than he's willing to confess. Yet when he divulges the identity of her assailant, he makes the biggest mistake of his life. For as Nicholas gets closer to his quarry, he'll find his carefully laid plans jeopardized at every turn by a bold woman daring to strike out on her own. And Nell will find her mission imperiled by Tanek - a temptation to which she cannot afford to surrender.

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771, being one year younger than her brother William. After their mother died in 1778, they were separated and did not return to the Lake District until 1794, when they spent two happy months walking around the hills near Keswick, eventually settling down at Grasmere in 1799. The journals that Dorothy kept are remarkable for the detailed observations she makes of the surrounding countryside and people, often providing glimpses of poverty and suffering, as well as displaying her complete love affair with nature.

La guerre de 1870 et la cruauté des vainqueurs ; la veulerie ou la méchanceté de ceux qui donneraient père et mère pour de l'argent ; la violence des huis clos de famille ; la sexualité tarifée ou refusée jusqu'au meurtre : voilà quelques-uns des thèmes qui traversent toute l'œuvre de Guy de Maupassant et que nous retrouvons ici. Une vision très sombre et très pessimiste de l'humanité.

Quatre nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant pour donner envie de découvrir ou de redécouvrir cet auteur sans égal du XIXe siècle. Quatre textes courts qui nous font voir bien des facettes de la cruauté humaine. La rapacité sans pitié avec "Pierrot" ; la méchanceté satisfaite et hypocrite des bien-pensants dans "La Rempailleuse" ; la vengeance d'une mère dont on a tué le fils avec "La Mère sauvage" ; la violence tranquille à l'abri des murs du foyer dans "Une famille".

"Un fou", "La Rempailleuse", "La Parure", "La Mère sauvage", "Un million" : cinq nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, choisies parmi des centaines pour illustrer les thèmes qui lui tenaient à cœur et qui reviennent de manière récurrente dans son œuvre. Alors qu'il épingle avec cruauté et ironie l'hypocrisie bien-pensante d'un pharmacien repus ou d'un petit-bourgeois âpre au gain, sa tendresse va aux femmes qui ont aimé trop fort et qui en sont mortes, romanichelle méprisée ou mère frappée par la guerre.

Hurt one too many times in the past, Sloan Fairchild is convinced that she will never be able to trust her heart to a man again. Instead, she pours all her energy into making a success of her elegant San Francisco bed and breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiancé for a month, Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world - and her concept of herself - upside down.

Blair Simpson embraced a life most merely dream about. Nearly 30-years-old, she devoted her nights as well as her days to dancing in the chorus line of Broadway musicals and in an occasional high-paying TV commercial. She'd never considered another career, believing that this was what she'd been born for. But when an injury sends her to a small town for 6 months of recuperation, she finds herself surrounded by couples her own age, raising families and building dreams together. And there she meets a man who forces her to come to terms with a part of herself she has long denied.

Robin von Locksley, oder kurz "Robin Hood", nimmt von den Reichen und gibt es den Armen. Mit seinen Gesellen lebt er im Sherwood Forest, in der Nähe von Nottingham und steht den Schwachen unbeirrt zur Seite, wenn ihnen Unrecht droht. Dem Sheriff von Nottingham missfällt dies natürlich und er lässt nichts unversucht. Robin und seine Freunde zu fassen. Doch das ist nicht einfach, denn Robin ist klug und hat treue Gefährten. Nur vor einem hat Robin Hood Respekt: seinem König Richard Löwenherz. Erleben sie diesen Klassiker der Weltliteratur in einem völlig neu bearbeiteten Hörbuchversion.